Adam Lanza & Jared Loughner

On December 14, 2012, Adam Lanza shot and killed 26 people, including 20 children and 6 staff, at Sandy Hook Elementary School in the Sandy Hook village of Newtown, Connecticut, and then killed himself. Jared Lee Loughner (born September 10, 1988) is an American citizen who is charged with the shooting in Tucson, Arizona, on January 8, 2011, that killed six people, including Chief U.S.5.0/5

Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy Briefing on his report on serious mental illness Remarks as prepared for delivery May 29, 2014 Last weekend, a young man known by his family and therapists to be mentally ill, killed six people and himself in another awful episode of mass violence. Before there was Elliot Rodger, there was Adam Lanza in Newtown, Jared Loughner in Tucson, James Holmes in Aurora, Colorado, and Aaron Alexis at the Washington Navy Yard. There was Gus Deeds, another young man who was in a Mental Health crisis but was denied extended inpatient care before he killed himself and stabbed his father, a Virginia state senator. All had untreated or undertreated serious mental illness. All spiraled out of control within a system that lacked the basic mechanisms to help. Many had parents who were pleading for more help. Violence amongst persons with mental illness is extraordinarily rare, and is far more likely to be self-directed. There are 40,000 suicides annually. Almost ...

Michael: I have in the past tried to focus on the untreated mental illness of past mass killers, such Adam Lanza, James Holmes, Jared Loughner, and Seung-Hui Cho, but there is an important difference. In all those cases, I felt that with early and proper intervention, we could have prevented those massacres. I do not feel that way with Elliot Rodger. It appears, based on seething hatred and perseveration on even the smallest perceived slights, he was going kill eventually. The reason I bring this up is because I feel it is important for the general public to understand that Elliot Rodger is NOT the face of mental illness. He did not have schizophrenia, bipolar, anxiety, or any autism spectrum disorder. The mentally ill do not plan to kill for years. There was no sign of paranoia or fear. Just hatred. Our children are not Elliot Rodger.

27 May 2014 17:37

So the shooter was in therapy for mental illness since age 8, eh? Wanna bet he was loaded from that age on with "behavior-altering drugs"? How'd that work out? Same thing with the Virginia Tech shooter, Cho, Tucson shooter Jared Loughner, the Colorado theater shooter, Sandy Hooks Adam Lanza, ALL "analyzed" by therapists and I'll bet you, prescribed drugs to help them "adjust and behave".

27 May 2014 12:54

A young man with mental problems and a will to kill everyone. It's not about the guns. This kid was crazy and nobody could see it. Rodger, 22, sent a couple dozen people -- including his parents and at least one of his therapists -- the 140-page document via e-mail not long before the shootings began. There had been warning signs that Rodgers was struggling with Mental Health. This kid had multiple therapists all his life. Santa Barbra county sheriff Brown told reporters that Rodger suffered from an undisclosed Mental Health issue and was under the care of a variety of health care professionals. (wouldn't that be a clue?) Everyone is avoiding the obvious fact that is shared in common with James Holmes, Adam Lanza, Jared Loughner and others. Mental illness.

27 May 2014 05:57

‘In a tizzy of media fury, the latest supposed mass gunman/internet weirdo serial killer has emerged with a new angle: “Men’s rights” and “misogyny.” However, the latest installment also follows the classic pattern of the recent psy ops of Cho at Virginia Tech, Anders Breivik, Jared Loughner, James Holmes and Adam Lanza. It is in this pattern that we see the evident fraud manifest and this pattern, I will argue, is the key to identifying when these events, from Manson to Columbine, from Cho to Rodgers, are real or staged. The recent boogeyman, Elliot Rodger, is the son of Hunger Games assistant producer Peter Rodger. Immediately following the shooting that has supposedly left seven dead, liberal media is fingering males, gun owners and masculinity as the problem. Any website that is visited by anyone or linked by anyone is thereby implicated in mass murder. Never mind how rational or coherent this dubious association is, the logic-free media was primed and ready to immediately lump all “cons ...

21 Feb 2014 16:09

Liza says: I certainly haven’t heard anyone refer to Jared Loughner or James Holmes or Adam Lanza as “good guys with g…

Just like Adam Lanza, James Holmes, and Jared Loughner. Feinstein used the same doctor as Pelosi for her lobotomy.

16 Dec 2013 21:02

The mainstream media and the Obama administration fail to point out key facts about all of the recent mass shootings... Whether or not is was Jared Loughner in Tucson, Adam Lanza at Sandy Hook, Jam

15 Dec 2013 07:34

Jared Loughner,Adam Lanza and Anders Breivik are Mental Patients who are on recreation Drugs,Drugs and Guns are powerful demons of Violence.

10 Dec 2013 01:26

Everytime I see a pic of him now I get the same feeling I get when I see a pic of Adam Lanza and Jared Loughner- creeped out.

18 Sep 2013 01:56

Let's see, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold (Columbine Shooting), Nathan Gale (killed Dimeba Darrell and 4 others), Seung-Hui Cho (Virginia Tech Shooting), Jared Loughner (Shot Gabrielle Giffords), James Eagan Holmes (Aurora, CO Movie Theatre Shooting), Adam Lanza (Newtown Shooting), and now Aaron Alexis (Navy Yard Shooting). All these men have 2 things in common: 1.) They were all very easily able to obtain deadly, and in many cases, automatic weapons. 2.) They were all obviously mentally disturbed. If you don't feel that there is something wrong with that, if you don't feel that a system in which such men can so easily obtain such weapons needs fixing, then clearly there is something wrong with you...

02 Jun 2013 02:54

“Follow God's lead. He will never direct you wrong.” Like how Adam Lanza, Jared Loughner & James Holmes followed his lead?

23 May 2013 02:01

This lady went on on em!! Anita Wills How stupid! Most Serial Killers, Mass Murderers, and Spree Killers are white! Does that make you feel better OSWALD? "The greatest asset that unearned privilege conveys is the sense that public spaces "belong" to you. If you are — like James Holmes last week, or Charles Whitman, (Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy, Jared Loughner, Timothy McVey, Ted Bundy, The Green River Killer, BTK, Adam Lanza and oh so many more. I have not even mentioned those who rape and kill, who are also more than likely white males. Whitman killed 16 people on the University of Texas, Austin campus in 1966 — an American-born, college-educated white man from a prosperous family, you don't have a sense that any place worth being is off-limits to the likes of you. White men from upper middle-class backgrounds expect to be both welcomed and heard wherever they go. When that sense of entitlement gets frustrated, as it can for a host of complex psychological reasons, it is those same hyper-privile ...

Adam Lanza's Mom, Jared Loughner and Aurora shooter WERE legal gun owners... -And the % of legal owners that DON'T do that are?

04 Apr 2013 17:17

people like him, Jared Loughner, James Holmes, Adam Lanza, should be in jail or mental institutions is the rebuttal.

21 Mar 2013 01:37

Adam Lanza, Jared Loughner, the Joker guy -- all atheist thugs

20 Mar 2013 00:04

yep Adam Lanza was totally black. Just like Jared loughner. And James Holmes. And the columbine shooters...

10 Mar 2013 13:51

Radicals act and Congress overreacts: A few unbalanced individuals such as Adam Lanza and Jared Loughner went ...

07 Mar 2013 23:25

Huh- I was unaware that Adam Lanza or Jared Loughner were veterans suffering from PTSD

05 Mar 2013 17:39

Billy Beck, Rob Robertson, Ernest Brown, and other veterans of *Usenet*... There is one correct answer, from *Usenet* experience. Fill in the missing name in this sequence. Jared Loughner, James Holmes, Adam Lanza, _. *Don't* take your time. You know the answer.

03 Mar 2013 23:40

What do Klebold, Harris, Cho & Lanza have in common? Auto-executed! Holmes & Loughner? Forever incarcerated, either in a prison or Mental Health institution! All 6? Mentally ill! Guns? Constitutionally protected, and the right to keep and bear them shall NOT be INFRINGED. Only people whose political ideology is "What difference does it make?" followed by "Americans are allowed to be STUPID" could propose KNEE-JERK legislation that INFRINGES upon We the People's 2nd Amendment right ostensibly to curb the behaviors of four mentally ill people who auto-executed themselves and two other mentally ill people who will NEVER AGAIN see the light of day! NOTE: No rational American thinks we'd be in the middle of yet another anti-Constitutional effort to ban firearms protected by the 2nd amendment if it were not for the violently bizarre behaviors of severely mentally ill Jared Loughner, James Holmes, and especially Adam Lanza. Meanwhile . . . Obama has added $6,000,000,000,000 to our National Debt in less than 50 . ...

01 Mar 2013 09:05

Do you not know that people like Anders Breivik,Jared Loughner&Adam Lanza were Political Assassins,They are Programmed by The Establishment.

23 Feb 2013 14:27

For liberals only: imagine the government being like Adam Lanza, Jared Loughner, & James Holmes being the only ones able to have guns.

Back to Mohamed Merah, the spree-killer of Toulouse, France... He was like Adam Lanza, Jared Loughner, et al.

16 Feb 2013 21:07

I'm not Adam Lanza, James Holmes, Jared Loughner, or Jacob Roberts. I refuse to be held responsible or punished 4 their actions.

14 Feb 2013 21:17

More Gun Control turns me into a victim of vendetta by a country that lost it's senses and gone mad. I am the start to CHANGE! Just HANG ME IN PROXY for Jared Loughner and Adam Lanza!

14 Feb 2013 21:11

Now is the time to hold the American People Accountable and responsible for their personal actions. I had nothing to do with Tucson, Aurora nor Newtown. Why am I being penalized? Can I volunteer to be hung in proxy for thr actions of Jared Loughner, Adam Lanza? Will my hanging make things right and bring Joy to victims Families?

It's already starting. Several democrats in Congress are already starting to chicken out on the assault weapons ban. They are going to go for the "universal background check" instead. Terrific. Let's see if I can think of any crazies who passed their background checks. How about: James Holmes, the Aurora shooter (passed his background check and bought an AR-15), Jared Loughner the Tucson shooter (a paranoid schizophrenic), Seung-Hui Cho, the Virgina Tech Shooter (an adjudicated mentally ill man whose records failed to get transferred to the feds. He bought 2 semi-automatic pistols). As for Adam Lanza, well he didn't even take a background check because his mother had the assault weapon in the house. So the killers in 3 of the mass murders democrats say impelled them to fight for gun control passed their background checks and the killer in the fourth most recent one didn't take a background check. But by all means let's just focus on the universal background checks. They are working really well!

10 Feb 2013 21:04

Jared Loughner was a Leftist. Adam Lanza an anarchist Communist Does it surprise me Christopher Dorner is a fan of ?

09 Feb 2013 21:03

We have an ex cop on the loose that has killed other cops. There is a massive manhunt for this man. He is said to have mental problems. Chris Kyle was murdered by Eddie Ray Routh. Someone that has known mental issues. James Holmes is portrayed as having mental issues. Jared Loughner is accused of having mental issues. Jimmie Lee *** is accused of having mental problems. Adam Lanza is accused of having mental problems. I'm sure we will hear a lot more this in the coming weeks.

09 Feb 2013 20:06

Seung-Hui Cho, who committed the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007, had been diagnosed with severe anxiety disorder as a child and placed under treatment. But Virginia Tech was prohibited from being told about Cho’s Mental Health problems because of federal privacy laws. At college, Cho engaged in behavior even more bizarre than the average college student. He stalked three women and, at one point, went totally silent, refusing to speak even to his roommates. He was involuntarily committed to a mental institution for one night and then unaccountably unleashed on the public, whereupon he proceeded to engage in the deadliest mass shooting by an individual in U.S. history. The 2011 Tucson, Ariz., shopping mall shooter, Jared Loughner, was so obviously disturbed that if he’d stayed in Pima Community College long enough to make the yearbook, he would have been named “Most Likely to Commit Mass Murder.” After Loughner got a tattoo, the artist, Carl Grace, remarked: “That’s a weird dude. That’s a Colu ...

04 Feb 2013 15:58

Have you noticed in the gun control debate going on in the country since Sandy Hook, that no one will let a discussion of things we must do about keeping guns out of the hands of the serious mentally ill go anwhere. Do you know why that is? Because the Mental Health system has no intention of addressing this and they are the main impediment to the discussion. The truth is the mentally ill in America are like the sacred cows of India. They are allowed to roam free with no restrictions and if they are the cause of problems - like the shooting of Gabbie Giffords by Jared Loughner, or the Aurora theatre killins by James Holmes, or the Sandy Hook schoolchildren by Adam Lanza, or even the current standoff of Jimmy *** holding a 5 year old autistic child in a bunker in Alabama (a man who was clearly mentally ill before this incident), they want to talk about gun control but not about controlling the mentally ill.

31 Jan 2013 19:27

Adam Lanza , Jared Loughner , and James HolmesTed Bundy, John Wayne Gacy , and Jeffrey Dahmer Who are these six men? The first three men went on murderous rampages with guns in public places. The second are three serial killers who murdered without the use of guns. Are the victims of the second group any less important than the first? Or does it seem so because the victims of the first group were all killed within seconds of each other and with today’s technology-almost before our eyes? What was the body count for these six men? Adam Lanza (20), Jared Loughner (6), James Holmes (12). Total murdered: 48 Ted Bundy (unknown-confessed to 30) John Wayne Gacy (unknown-at least 33), Jeffrey Dahmer (17). Total murdered: At least 80 What is the common denominator for all six? Mental illness. With the exception of Adam Lanza (his mother was in the process of having him committed, but still had her firearms stored in the same room with his gaming system, computer and TV)- undiagnosed and untreated ...

26 Jan 2013 20:50

The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence does not. “High capacity magazines are part of the weapons of choice of mass murderers,” says the group’s executive director Josh Horwitz. The larger-sized ammo clips were used, for instance, by rogue Army Major Nidal Hasan and the Tucson, Arizona shootings that killed six people and wounded Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Horwitz points out that Tucson shooter Jared Loughner was tackled while attempting to reload a new magazine into his Glock handgun. And police say that Newtown, Connecticut shooter Adam Lanza may have allowed some of his victims to escape while he reloaded his smaller clips. “The more opportunities to stop a mass shooter, the better,” says Horwitz. Mr. Horwitz, if this is the case then you would not be opposed to doing away with "gun free zones" or limiting where a licensed concealed carry individual carries. Those people are opportunities to stop mass murder before it becomes mass murder. What is the difference between a LEO with a gun and ...

Jared Loughner, James Holmes and Adam Lanza had 1 thing in common they were NUTS ! If parents would just eat dinner with their kids !

03 Jan 2013 14:05

Larry Alan Burns, federal district judge of San Diego who sentenced Jared Loughner. Burns, a gun owner and NRA supporter, was appointed to the bench by President George W. Bush, so it stood out when he wrote: "Bystanders got to Tucson shooter, Jared Loughner and subdued him only after he emptied one 30 round magazine and was trying to load another. Adam Lanza, the Newtown shooter, chose his primary weapon as a semi-automatic rifle with 30-round magazines. And we don't even bother to call the 100-rounder that James Holmes is accused of emptying in an Aurora, Colorado movie theater a magazine, it's a drum. How is this not an argument for regulating the number of rounds a gun can fire? I get it. Someone bent on mass murder, who has only a ten-round magazine or a revolver at his disposal probably is not going to abandon his plan and instead try to talk his problems out. But we might be able to take the 'mass' out of 'mass shooting,' or at least make the perpetrator's job a bit harder."

02 Jan 2013 20:05

None of the three most recent armed mass killers -- James Holmes (Aurora), Jared Loughner (Tucson), and Adam Lanza (Newtown) -- had any criminal record. So whenever the NRA insists on protecting all "law-abiding citizens" who own firearms, think of how their preferred policies would continue protecting people just like those three.

01 Jan 2013 10:24

The mentality of TeaParty domestic terrorists is no different than that of Adam Lanza, James Holmes, Jared Loughner or Tim McVeigh

24 Dec 2012 21:45

Some people don't like to hear this but, Jared Loughner (Tucson), James Holmes (Aurora) & Adam Lanza (Newtown) are/were insane, not "Evil".

Like all the previous mass shootings and violent tragedies involving mental illness, my heart is broken for the community of Newtown, CT. I really didn't know how to comment on the tragedy other than expressing rage, initially that we have still done nothing to prevent that type of thing. Unfortunately, people like the Adam Lanza, Dylan Klebold, Eric Harris, Jared Loughner, James Holmes, etc. who go on these "missions" are like that everywhere and these instances although they sting, are rare. Mostly these types of suicidal people just kill themselves. That said, the only way to move forward which the media seems to always get wrong- is understand that every factor takes part of a tragedy in general especially in the mentally ill. It's the easy access to guns, lax and hardly affordable Mental Healthcare, media, Hollywood, politics, stigma... etc. However, most of the blame falls on the person pulling the trigger- mentally ill or not.. It's not an excuse. We've come so far since the mentally ill were tre . ...